Editing

CSS Preprocessors

Basic editing support for Sassy CSS and LESS CSS preprocessor files has been added to Netbeans dev build. The work is still in progress, but the main part is ready to use:

syntactic and semantic (parser based) coloring for the language constructs,

indentation, simple reformat of code,

code folds,

file templates

For variables and mixins we provide:

go to declaration,

mark occurrences,

instant rename,

code completion (also shows items from imported files),

vars, mixins and imported files shown in the navigator,

find usages and refactor rename among files.

HTML5 Project

Network Monitor

Network monitor helps to analyze REST related communication, WebSocket communication and any network requests which failed. It is available for Chrome with NetBeans Integration and Embedded WebKit Browser.

For each request it displays request and response headers:

and response received from the server:

and call stack which triggered this network request:

For WebSocket communication all text frames are displayed:

The network monitor tries to provide help in certain common situations: